Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learn

Highly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences and analyzing them as they are described, the author conveys the developmental thought processes employed and shows a style of thinking that leads to successful results is something that can be learned. Along with spectacular successes, the author also conveys how failures contributed to shaping the thought processes. Provides the reader with a style of thinking that will enhance a person's ability to function as a problem-solver of complex technical issues. Consists of a collection of stories about the author's participation in significant discoveries, relating how those discoveries came about and, most importantly, provides analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as the author and his associates progressed through engineering problems.
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Anmol@anmol
5 stars
Aug 22, 2022

For professor Hamming the whole world was an equation and he was solving it one part at a time. A unique perspective on few of the engineering problems.

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Jeremy Cote@cote
4 stars
Aug 7, 2021

I thought this was a really great book. Hamming has a lot of good thoughts when it comes to the philosophy of doing science and engineering (what he calls "style"). There are a bunch of gems hidden in this book, and it was a pleasure to read through it. The reason I only gave this book four stars was because it was riddled with errors and typos. Seriously, I can't believe how this got to press (though I know it's an old edition). I imagine the newer editions are better, because the number of typos and errors was incredible. Probably the book I've seen with the most errors ever.

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Jesper Bylund@Jesper
4 stars
Jun 29, 2021

Excellent author. Very inspiring. But also a bit heavy on the math. I ended up with a ton of dog ears and a realisation that I'll never know enough math.

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Brian@briany
4 stars
Jan 25, 2024
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Tomek Skupiński@tomekskupinski
5 stars
Jan 27, 2023
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mercy@mercy
4 stars
Jul 24, 2022
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Engin Arslan@enginx
5 stars
May 15, 2022